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Table 2 School years and prevalence of Specific Learning Disorder. Values are reported as the cumulative prevalence of individuals with SLD on the total of individuals per school year

From: Specific Learning Disorders and Eating Disorders: an Italian retrospective study

School years

Prevalence of SLD in our sample

Prevalence of SLD in Italy: reference values [29]

Ļ‡2 test, p

2013/14

0/20 0%

2.1%

0.512

2014/15

1.9% (+ā€‰1.9%)

2.6% (+ā€‰0.5%)

0.746

2015/16

6.7% (+ā€‰4.8%)

3.1% (+ā€‰0.5%)

0.05

2016/17

8.7% (+ā€‰2.0%)

3.6% (+ā€‰0.5%)

0.002

2017/18

8.2% (-0.5%)

4.5% (+ā€‰0.9%)

0.016

2018/19

8.5% (+ā€‰0.3%)

4.9% (+ā€‰0.4%)

0.007

Overall (in December 2019)

9.5% (+ā€‰1.0%)

Not available

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  1. Abbreviations: SLD Specific Learning Disorders